Country: Italy Year: 2023 Duration: 101 min. Language: Neapolitan Subtitles: English
Outskirts of Naples, year 2022, Desiré is a 16-year-old Senegalese girl who lives day by day. She has no friends, no interests, no great passions; her world appears as empty as the gaze of her mother, a drug addict who can’t stand up. The only thing she appreciates is her affection for Emanuele, a boy a few years older who seeks a rapid rise in the local underworld. One night, Emanuele convinces her to act as a courier for the local underworld: the two boys are given a backpack which they must deliver to a specific location in the city. Desiré finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time: she is arrested by the police and locked up in the juvenile penitentiary on the island of Nisida, on the border with Naples. During her long detention which lasts 18 months, Desiré begins a slow path of identity growth, she begins to feel attracted to the theatre, in prison she finds the tools to express herself that paradoxically she didn’t have in freedom, her dormant pleasure for singing fades away. something more, it is a value, it is awareness. Parallel to her inner journey, external events take an unexpected turn: members of the underworld are looking for the backpack which has not been found since that night..
Director
Mario Vezza
Mario Vezza (Torre del Greco, Naples, 1983) grew up with an artistic education. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples in New Art Technologies. Since 2006 he has been active as a director and VJ. In 2006 he moved to the UK to study at Dartington College of Arts. He graduated in 2008 in New Art Technologies. Since 2009 he has directed short films, documentaries and video clips. In 2022 he wrote and directed his first film, Desiré, released in theaters in 2024.
Filmography
“DESIRÉ” BEST FILM IN ALICE IN THE CITY 2023, SECTION OF THE ROME FILM FESTIVAL
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: MARIO VEZZA SCREENPLAY: MARIO VEZZA, FABRIZIO NARDI WITH THE COLLABORATION OF MAURIZIO BRAUCCI PHOTOGRAPHY: EMILIO COSTA, AIC IMAGO EDITOR: MARIO VEZZA, ALESSIO PERISANO MUSIC:SOUNDTRACK: STEFANO FORMATO, GIOVANNI MARIA TROIANO, IGOR KNOWLES PRODUCER: CINEMAFICTION, ANTONIO ACAMPORA, ARMANDO CIOTOLA CAST: NASSIRATOU ZANRE, ENRICO LO VERSO, ANTONELLA STEFANUCCI, TONIA DE MICCO, BRUNELLA CACCIUNI, GIULIANA ZANNELLI, ANNACHIARA CANARIO, SARA D’AMBROSIO, GIUSEPPE AURIEMMA, VALERIA POLLICE, ANDREA DE GOYZUETA, DIEGO SOMMARIPA
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